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Holograph and autograph letters:- [Thomas] Twynog Jeffreys, Rhymney, to [John] Davies, 1904-1909 (the publication of Tannau Twynog, reminiscences of Llanddeusant), J. A. Bradney, Tal-y-coed, Monmouth, to [John] Davies, 1904-1916 (the writer's pedigree and his genealogical researches, etc.), J. Thomas Watkins, Penycae, Swansea VAlley, to J[ohn] davies, 1910 (a request for the writer's pedigree), John Davies, Pandy, to Ben Price, Sydney, 1915 (consent to the betrothal of the writer's daughter Gladys to the recipient), B. T. Jones, Neath, secretary of the South Wales Calvinistic Methodist Association, to Miss [Gladys] Davies, 1917 (condolence on the death of John Davies, the recipient's father), J. L. Wheatley, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace, City Hall, Cardiff, to James H. Parry, Pandy [1917] (the death of John Davies) (incomplete), and W. A. Townsend, Bedwelty Pits, to Mrs Ben E. Price, Sydney, 1919 (an account of a peace celebration carnival) (enclosed is a photograph of John Davies's grave); pedigrees, largely of Monmouthshire interest, compiled by John Davies and J. A. Bradney (including a chart of the latter's sixteen great-great-grandchildren); a list by John Davies of 'Twynog Jeffreys Papers'; photograph [1936] of the funeral cortege of [E. W. (Eddie) Thomas, Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia, a native of Ferndale; press cuttings relating to the election of John Davies to be Moderator of the Calvinistic Methodist General Assembly, 1915-1916, and the funeral of E. W. Thomas, Katoomba, 1936; etc.

Notes on Monmouthshire and other antiquities; letters to John Davies, Pandy, from W. Howells, Trevecca, 1886 (Trevecca College examinations), H. C. Moore, Hereford, 1891 (W[oolhope] C[lub] luncheon), D. Davies, Babel, Llandovery ['Davies y Tutor'], 1905 (the recipient's schooling by the writer), and J. D. Jones, Gellifor, Ruthin, 1910 (comments on Richard Bennett: Blynyddoedd Cyntaf Methodistiaeth); notes on English literature taken by Gladys Davies [daughter of John Davies, Pandy] at University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, 1905; etc.